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Trip Slide ShowPictures can be seen as a slide show or individually. Captions are included where necessary. More pictures may be added during the month.
| Bruckner monument at Ansfelden |
| Grave of Anton Bruckner's father |
| Bruckner's birth house (Geburthaus) |
| Sign at entrance to Birth House Museum |
| Schoolroom at the Geburthaus |
| Living room at the Geburthaus |
| Death mask at the Geburthaus |
| Organ console used by Bruckner (now at the Geburthaus in Ansfelden) |
| Sculpture in the birth room |
| Bruckner sculpture at the Anton Bruckner Center in Ansfelden |
| Symphonie-wanderweg map at Anton Bruckner Center |
| One of the Wanderweg stations along the trail |
| The road between Ansfelden and St. Florian |
| The countryside between Ansfelden and St. Florian |
| Welcome to St. Florian, Austria |
| The Monastery at St. Florian |
| Aerial view of the Monastery (postcard) |
| Alter at St. Florian church |
| Bruckner marker at the front entrance to the monastery church |
| The Bruckner Organ at St. Florian |
| My room at the St. Florian guesthouse |
| Organ console at St. Florian |
| Keys to the monastery gates |
| Matthais Giesen offers me a private recital (Adagio from the String Quintet) |
| Some stones from the original foundation (13th century) |
| Bruckner and me (St. Florian crypt) |
| Some of the bones behind Bruckner's sarcophagus |
| I am tempted to take a nap |
| Bruckner's Bosendorfer piano and other furnishings |
| the BrucknerTag Committee takes me to dinner. (L-R:Guenther Pfisterer, Simon Windner, Klaus Laczika, Julian Gillesberger, Matthias Giesen, Franz Prammer |
| The crypt door - two doors down from my room |
| The garden outside my room |
| The church towers from the garden |
| My rental car parked inside the monastery |
| Plaque for the Bruckner Glockenspiel in the Haupt Platz, Linz |
| The Alten Dom (Old Cathedral) in Linz |
| The Bruckner Organ in the Alten Dom (postcard) |
| Brucknerstiege Exhibit marker |
| One of the panels for the new Brucknerstiege Exhibit (on the stairs leading to the organ loft of the Alten Dom) |
| A Bruckner bust as part of the Brucknerstiege Exhibit |
| Alten Dom alter as seen from the organ loft |
| Bruckner Organ console at the Alten Dom |
| The original manual bellows in the Bruckner Organ |
| The very faint written farewell by Bruckner on the Alten Dom organ console |
| Bruckner plaque outside the Alten Dom in Linz |
| Bruckner plaque outside the Linz Parish Church |
| One of several buildings in Linz where Bruckner taught students and led choirs |
| Bruckner led a choir here. The first floor is now occupied by the Anton Bruckner Institute |
| The Danube River cruise ship, Anton Bruckner |
| The Brucknerhaus Concert Hall in Linz |
| The Mariendom (New Cathedral) in Linz (Postcard) |
| Plaque in Mariendom commemorating the first performance of Bruckner's Mass in E Minor |
| Stained glass panel in the Mariendom |
| The Valhalla Shrine in Regenburg, Germany (Postcard) |
| Valhalla (taken from the steps in front) |
| A view of the Danube from Valhalla |
| The Bruckner bust in Regensburg |
| The Bruckner bust as it is placed today (Max Reger is on the right) |
| This is a photo of me standing on the same spot that Hitler stood for his infamous picture at the installation of the Bruckner bust in 1937 |
| My hotel in Ebrach, Germany |
| Signing the register at the opening reception (Ken Ward and Stephen Pearsall are behind me) |
| The chuch at the Ebrach Cloister (before the first concert) |
| William Carragan and Gerd Schaller relaxing after the Bruckner 1st concert |
| Closing the street for a rehearsal |
| Bruckner fanatics listening to a closed rehearsal outside the church |
| Dirk Borth, William Carragan and me. |
| Ken Ward shows off his newly sculpted Bruckner bust |
| Pia Molck-Ude and Ken Ward |
| William Carragan with the score to the 1874 Symphony No. 3 |
| The crack abruckner.com promotion team prepares to launch their Ebrach media blitz. |
| The Bavarian Radio recording production van |
| The breakfast crowd (Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward, William Carragan's friend, Inez, Werner de Smet, Stephen Pearsall, Lilo Achenbach |
| Dietmar Achenbach, Ken Ward and I share a joke. Bruckner looks on admiringly. |
| The closing reception: Dietmar and Lilo Achenbach, Horst Ernstberger, Stephen Pearsall, Ken Ward, John Berky. Photo by Heinz Sendler |
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